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Other disregarded theories contend that the hoard is a hidden stash of gold buried by Jesse James, or loot taken by Black Bart, who was known for robbing stagecoaches. [16] [17] A theory has also been advanced that the hoard was part of a treasure supposedly hidden by the Knights of the Golden Circle, to be used to fund a second Civil War. [18]
In the 2012 TV series Alcatraz, Confederate gold was hidden beneath Alcatraz prison by the warden in 1960 to be discovered in 2012. In the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption 2 , the Van Der Linde gang spends most of Chapter 3 seeking a supposed stash of Confederate gold from two feuding families.
A pamphlet published in 1885, entitled The Beale Papers, is the source of this story.The treasure was said to have been obtained by an American named Thomas J. Beale in the early 1800s, from a mine to the north of Nuevo México (New Mexico), at that time in the Spanish province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (an area that today would most likely be part of Colorado).
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The second essential: a circumnavigation of the lake, on the road that runs mainly at water level. Rather than renting a self-drive car, it is better to negotiate a local to take you; your hotel ...
Underlining the dangers of exploration in the Pitt Lake region, newspapers claimed that since 1900 some two dozen prospectors and treasure hunters looking for Pitt Lake’s gold lost their life by natural causes or fell victim to “Slumach’s Curse.” Remarkably only the death or disappearance of five seemed worth reporting.
In the 1940s the country club closed. In the 1950s the area around Lake Alfred was used for citrus groves until the freezes of the 1980s. Afterwards Lake Alfred was used as an illegal dump. In 1996 the Lake County Water Authority purchased the land and it became Hidden Waters Preserve. Hiking trails were added for people to enjoy.
Several UFO sightings were reported in the proximity of Mount Shasta and are speculated in local legends to be lenticular clouds hiding Lemurian motherships visiting the hidden city of Telos. [9] Bigfoot sightings at Shasta have also been reported in cryptozoology, [10] as well as stories about interdimensional beings connected to the Ascended ...